The Booneville School District held its inaugural #AllForOneDay for its athletes Friday.
Athletic Director Josh Walker noted before the friendly competition between four squads of teams began that students involved in athletics in some capacity account for almost half of the student body and urged them to set an example for each other and all fellow students.
Because there are more than 230 students in grades 7-12 involved with athletics the event brought together athletes of all sports and ages to interact with one another and, as Walker puts it, appreciate the role saying one is a Bearcat.
Walker also detailed the origins of the saying going back to the 1980s when the football team, under Doug Scheel at the time, started the call up "all for one, one for all, Bearcats all the way."
The competitions included stops in the safe room for volleyball related activities, in the gym for basketball related activities and in the fieldhouse for football related activities.
A fourth location was set up in the cafeteria for a break period for each team.
After the three events the top two teams, the Green team led by Bailey Stringer and the Purple team of Doc Crowley, advanced to a final competition on the Bearcat Stadium turf.
The teams who did not qualify picked one team to cheer for to keep with the all for one theme and the White team with Tim Goers rooting for the Purple team and the Pink team of Ronnie Denton urging on the Green team.
For that competition athletes ran across the field, picked up a medicine ball and ran to a point and back to the opposing sideline to hand it off to the next runner. The first runner then did a bear crawl through a series of hurdles and ran a zig zag pattern back to the home sideline.
Crowley’s Purple team finished the course as a unit first.
